My friend is writing a script on women, it is well written.. and will definitely be popular.
I like to call such scripts as “perils of Pamela” or “bane of betty beauty” the script like all woman oriented topic focuses on discrimination against woman. I don’t know why it annoys me.
As playwrights maybe we need talk solutions instead of glorifying problems. The woman’s issue is basically because of conformation into a pattern. The situations arise because we don’t want to pay the price for the change it could be lethargy to break comfort zones, but at the end of the day it is that we don’t take a stand being a woman has nothing to do with it.
The instances where the extraordinariness of an ordinary human being is seen.
The woman’s issue -- my contention is if we are talking about woman’s issue we need to talk about solutions instead of crying of being victims.
But looking at things logically men are victimized on other issues, the onus to earn more than his wife, the onus to earn, and manage finance, the onus of career building may not agree with many a masculine gender. Anyway that’s not whats bothering me for that the gentlemen will script “tasks of Hercules” or something equally trendy.
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I agree fully to what you say that there is glorification of the victimization of women, especially in films and T.V. soaps.And when the solutions are suggested, they almost amount to total rebellion against social structures or becoming anti-social etc. Rarely do we find projection of a woman who is intelligent and wise enough to forge her own way even amidst the restrictive social norms.
ReplyDeleteYou have also rightly pointed that men too are victims of the rigid socio-economic structures of our society. But this is often overlooked.
What I distresses me the most is that it is generally believed that men or patriarchy are responsible for the victimization of women hence we are at their mercy. Our liberation lies in their hands. The truth is patriarchy has given women a lot of security and benefits too which women often take for granted. This is their comfort Zone which is difficult to come out of and own their own lives.